The reVillager Podcast

Sarah Wildeman, CEO of Our Common, discusses the benefits of community living and fostering collaboration within neighborhoods. The podcast explores the importance of healthy family dynamics, creating a village-like atmosphere, and building supportive relationships for individuals and families. Sarah shares insights on the challenges and rewards of intentional living, drawing on over a decade of communitarian experience.

Eric Balance, creator of Resilient Minds podcast, discusses conscious entrepreneurship, leadership, and building community in the modern world. Topics include embodying kindness, abundance, and service, evolving into a conscious leader, creating community, unlocking leadership potential through emotional intelligence, and exploring the vision of utopia and conscious leadership.

In this episode, Jasper is connecting with Brad Nye from Tribalize; a regenerative living thought leadership organization that seeks to provide a participant network, community incubator, and sector catalyst. They are gearing up for their upcoming summit, Regen Week ‘24 March 21-28 online and in Tulum, Mexico. This online and in-person event will unite regenerative visionaries across the globe to spark golden connections in synchronicity and host cross-disciplinary leaders from 13 regeneration ecosystems. Come join the experience as we propel the global regenerative movement by showcasing our visions, gathering for co-creation, promoting impactful initiatives, and deepening our shared intention. Learn more at www.regenweek.com and get your tickets here now. Click here to watch the full episode on YouTube.

In this reVillager episode, Jasper Sircus sits down with Ian MacKenzie, a successful filmmaker, writer, men’s mentor, cofounder of ⁠The School of Mythopoetics⁠, and the host of the Mythic Masculine Podcast⁠. He’s also a long-time friend and more recently a collaborator on our upcoming course in the reVillager Academy. In this conversation, we chat about his newest film, “⁠The Village of Lovers⁠”, which is a documentary film about an ecovillage in Portugal named Tamera. The film took him and his two other co-directors 7 years to complete and is finally now going to premiere globally online, by Self-Determined Payment on February 7th, 2024. Ian shares more about not just the film, but also the upcoming summit he is hosting in unison with the film’s release around the same themes, “⁠A Cry from the Future”, which will be a visionary online gathering, hosted from Feb 10-14th. This summit will bring together amazing leaders and activists of our times to discuss how we can transform our culture and move from global crisis to group coherence. In this episode, Jasper and Ian go into depth about the philosophies and practices that make a community strong and relationally solid, both within the context of an ecovillage as well as in the broader community. Ian shares about what he learned while living in and documenting Tamera, and lays out some of their key ways of thinking about relational harmony and communal structure, including a modality they created for group processing called “Forum”. We also explore what “village-minded” really means and how we can use the wisdom and practice of intentional community living to create more accountable, transparent, and compassionate systems and leadership. Thanks so much for listening and if you want to see Ian’s new film, you can register for free at www.thevillageoflovers.com! Watch on Youtube at https://youtu.be/rPkugsNkz7I?si=BJNlY5s9QGjBfNGy.

We really loved having Nkem on our podcast recently. Sante hosted this episode and dove deep into topics such as community relationship, building resiliency, and the deepening of inner work that happens when we live in community. Nkem Ndefo is the founder of Lumos Transforms and creator of the Resilience Toolkit, an online course that helps you develop your capacity to relax despite being triggered by the stresses of life. She is known for her unique ability to connect with people of all types by holding powerful healing spaces, weaving complex concepts into accessible narratives, and creating synergistic and collaborative learning communities that nourish people’s innate capacity for healing, wellness, and connection. We LOVE talking about mental health and the healing implications that the community can bring. However, this conversation pointed to a very important element: the personal connection with ourselves. Only by doing our deep inner work, can we show up authentically in the community and make the world a more beautiful place.

We enjoyed having Raamayan on our podcast this week, diving in deep into the modern technology and tools that are facilitating more sovereign and empowered communities. Raamayan a Leading New Systems Architect who fuses spirituality and systems change.  He an active voice in the Web3 and DAO revolution and is an interdisciplinary who has founded VEME and Creation Space as platforms to give online creators the tools to transition to a decentralized creator economy, using NFTs, DAO’s, and AI generative creation tech. He hosts a podcast with his brother Zamir, called “The Next Renaissance Podcast”.  He is also a musician and yogi who shares his lineage of Indian philosophy and wisdom in relation to the newly emerging world of blockchain technology. There is so much potential for what we can build with these tools, with our hearts in the right place. That's why this excites us so much here at reVillager, because we believe when you give people the tools to craft their own community structures, you get transparency, equivalence of voice, and empowered collaborators that are driven to make the world around them more beautiful. THANKS AGAIN for the HUGE support we’ve received from this Kickstarter. Now that we have reached our goal, we are going for a stretch goal of 33K US to build the reVillager Academy and host community-building courses that will allow more people access to this important knowledge. JUST 1 DAY LEFT GUYS! We are almost there. www.Fundrevillager.com

Social Technology is what we are building when we create villages. We are creating systems, tools, and processes that facilitate happy, healthy cultures by honoring our own values through the way we live. It's like holistic healing, healing as a whole society. We had so much fun diving into these important topics with Nicky on our podcast yesterday.Nicky @nickywilks is a champion of social entrepreneurship/regenerative business enterprise and promotes transformational environments through facilitating retreats & workshops. He hosts the “Rite Way Podcast” and is the founder of “Journeyman”, an organization that provides camps, quests, and courses for boys that focus on providing Rites of Passage experiences. He is also now launching his “One Village Initiative” which aims to widen the Journeyman work with boys to youth of all genders. THANKS AGAIN for the HUGE support we’ve received from this Kickstarter. Now that we have reached our goal, we are going for a stretch goal of 33K US to build the reVillager Academy and host community-building courses that will allow more people access to this important knowledge. JUST 1 DAY LEFT GUYS! We are almost there. Contribute to our Kickstarter Here.

Motherhood is awakening many mothers, Sheleana included, to be drawn to regenerating their local communities and seeking ways that we can be of service to the good of all. Many parents have the experience of not being supported by the community, and needing to brave all those harsh challenges alone, or with just their partner. With the Revillaging Movement, we are seeking to relocalize our efforts to make the world a better place and start at the grassroots level when it comes to community building. It happens one connection at a time, but soon the community becomes strong through diversity and cooperation. Sheleana is a spiritual coach and the founder of Rising Woman from which she has a growing community of over 3 million readers. She promotes cultivating conscious, healthy relationships as well as learning to heal trauma in a holistic way. She is also the author of “Becoming the One”, a transformational book about the journey of discovering your healed, whole self. You can learn more about her at www.risingwoman.com.

Parents need each other! Raising children alone is.. well it's HARD. More than ever, community is so important. We are needing more than just our immediate family to support us, we need a village. Thanks so much to Ben for being on our podcast this week! Ben is a counselor, coach, and leader in conscious men’s work. He supports men in healing from addiction and developing healthy, loving relationships with their partners. You can check him out at www.evolvingman.com or his podcast by the same name. Just 1 week left for our Kickstarter! If you love what we talk about here on the Revillager Podcast, please contribute at www.fundrevillager.com.

What an incredible chat with Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr. we had this week! He made for us an entire presentation on what he calls the “16 Indigenous Principles of Building Sustainable, Harmonious, and Prosperous Communities.” It was profoundly insightful and wise and rooted in Indigenous tradition, eldership, and perspective. Here is a little clip where he is sharing about intentional community and its path to our collective abundant future. In Western society, we enjoy so much abundance, but what is lacking is an abundance of community and connection. We live next door to people, some of which we have never even talked to. Back in the day of tribal life, we knew the people who lived near us because we were anchored to our homes. You can learn more about Chief Phil Lane’s work by going to his website https://www.fwii.net/. And you can read his incredible paper that speaks to the role of technology for good, called “Deep Social Networks and the Digital Fourth Way” here: https://st11.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1656376563?profile=original It's important to bring back the indigenous elders that are connected with the deep original wisdom of this land. They hold the wisdom and the key to our civilization’s future. They understood the deep knowledge of village living and being intimately connected and dependent upon each other. We are only as strong as the communities we belong to. Let's bring back this #revillager energy! Help make this vision a reality by supporting our Kickstarter at www.fundrevillager.com